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A Florence Diary by Diana Athill
$23.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.
A Florence Diary by Diana Athill
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In August 1947, Diana Athill travelled to Florence by the Golden Arrow train for a two-week holiday with her good friend Pen. In this playful diary of that trip, Athill recorded her observations and adventures - eating with (and paid for by) the hopeful men they meet on their travels, admiring architect ...Show more
After A Funeral by Diana Athill
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
The story of Diana Athill's relationship with Didi - a gifted writer and an Egyptian in exile - and a remarkably honest, poignant look at love and grief. This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she ...Show more
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill
$30.00 AUD
Category: Literary
In this sequel to Costa Biography Award Winning Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill writes vivaciously, poignantly, and with extraordinary clarity about what really matters in the end, from the remarkable vantage point of her late nineties. Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no ...Show more
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter by Diana Athill
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A sequel to the Costa Award-winning Somewhere Towards the End: a rich, humorous and intelligent consideration of growing old and what really matters in the end.
Alive, Alive Oh and Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her retirement home in Highgate, London, as she approaches her 100th year, Diana Athill reflects on what it is like to be in her nineties, and on the moments in her life which have risen to the surface and sustai ...Show more
Don't Look at Me Like That by Diana Athill
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of Somewhere Towards the End and Stet, the late great Diana Athill's only novel, about love, betrayal and a young woman finding oneself in 1950s London. England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her best friend, Roxane, she moves from se ...Show more
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
A collection of candid, entertaining letters, spanning thirty years of wit, wisdom, gossip and intimacy. Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity ev ...Show more
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill
$40.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty and a passionate zest for life. This intimate corresponden ...Show more
Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Athill's debut, and a modern classic memoir: a moving story of love and loss, heartbreak and hope during the second world war. Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to ...Show more
Make Believe: A True Story by Diana Athill
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Diana Athill's account of her turbulent relationship with Black Power activist Hakim Jamal in the 1960s: raw and unflinching, a memoir of friendship, love, mania and injustice.
Make Believe: A True Story by Diana Athill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In Make Believe, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of Instead of a Letter and Stet, remembers her turbulent friendship with Hakim Jamal, a young black convert to the teachings of Malcolm X, whom she met in London in the late 1960s. Despite a desperately troubled youth, he became an eloquent spokesman for ...Show more